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U.S. Basketball Teams Turn In Olympian
Performances

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Frederick C. Klein Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Aug. 1, 1996 3:38 a.m. ET

ATLANTA -- The Olympics are winding down, so it's well to check out its trends. Things that are hot in Week Two here include visitors thronging back to Centennial Olympic Park since it reopened Tuesday from the previous Saturday morning's bomb blast; the bathing-suited marches of the synchronized swimmers to and from their pool (hut, two, three, four); and people saying they knew all along that Carl Lewis would win his fourth long-jump gold medal.

In the not-hot category are pin-trading, which aficionados say has been...